ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Depending on its complexity, new product development can last for years, accruing research, prototyping, and production costs without bringing in revenue. You’ll need to maximize your presence on multiple channels with educational content and influencer marketing to ramp up the excitement. Slow skimming.

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Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). Distribution Channel for Product Companies. A customer acquisition strategy that is pragmatic, and. How does he mitigate that?

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

However, Deborah is looking for ways to sell her low carbon footprint green house technology to producers, and is in conversations with producers in Senegal and India. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses.

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Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x But LivingSocial is reportedly doing around $180,000 per day in gross revenue.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we discussed an important topic that many entrepreneurs are facing.

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PPC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I also advised Antonio to defer his investor road show and even customer acquisition programs until this basic positioning exercise is in place. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. IDES Technologies. If possible, of course. Photo by mjamesno.

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Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. Orbiter expects to give its investors a 15 times return on investment based on their current pipeline and revenue forecast. Happy Grasshopper. Social Pulse.

San Jose 115

San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington 115

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation. What channels work best for you product? The same applies for packaging as well.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Facebook surprised with its first acquisition in Israel today (and its second acquisition outside of the US), with the announcement that it is buying Israeli startup Snaptu (previously known as Moblica) for an estimated $60-70 million. The acquisition is supposed to close in a few weeks.

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Sri Lanka Dominican Republic Saudi Arabia 94

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The next step in your world domination plan is to figure out how best to move beyond your current list of country domination (United States, Brazil, UK, India, Spain). We typically tend to look at silos and rare compare across acquisition channels. What do you do? Traffic comes to your website from many sources. everything!

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Analytics Web Peru Argentina 109

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. Apples China App Store Brings in 18% of Downloads, 3% of Revenue.

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Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor launched a new incentive to encourage and assist Israeli companies interested in trading in China and India. The funds are to be used to help the company establish and operate an overseas office in India or China, including a local team and a consultant.

China 90

China Cofounder India 90

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. While the revenue numbers may not be huge in 2010, there is certainly promise to the business models that are developing on these platforms.

Internet 107

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 107

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In India or Japan or the United States? Do the big gigantic numbers imply that your business should use these social media channels? Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The causal impact does not have to be on Revenue. Humans, check. But, what about businesses?

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